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deploy

dɪˈplɔɪ
WordNet
Attack on the Dutch troops deployed in the Parc Royal (Warandepark) in Brussels by Belgian insurgents on September 24, 1830. Part of a recueil with plates about the events during the Belgian Revolution in Brussels, Antwerp and other cities from August 25, 1830 to March 27, 1831.
Attack on the Dutch troops deployed in the Parc Royal (Warandepark) in Brussels by Belgian insurgents on September 24, 1830. Part of a recueil with plates about the events during the Belgian Revolution in Brussels, Antwerp and other cities from August 25, 1830 to March 27, 1831.
  1. (v) deploy
    place troops or weapons in battle formation
  2. (v) deploy
    to distribute systematically or strategically "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East"
Illustrations
Modern siege tools deployed by Archduke Albrecht's troops at the siege of Ostend, 1601-1604. Inscriptions in the performance in Italian. With caption of 4 lines in Latin and 4 lines in German. Numbered bottom left: 336. The print is part of an album.
Modern siege tools deployed by Archduke Albrecht's troops at the siege of Ostend, 1601-1604. Inscriptions in the performance in Italian. With caption of 4 lines in Latin and 4 lines in German. Numbered bottom left: 336. The print is part of an album.
Order of battle of the armies deployed at Dreux, prior to the battle of Ivry, March 14, 1590. With caption of 8 lines in German and 2 lines in French. Numbered bottom left: 261. The print is part of an album.
Order of battle of the armies deployed at Dreux, prior to the battle of Ivry, March 14, 1590. With caption of 8 lines in German and 2 lines in French. Numbered bottom left: 261. The print is part of an album.
Army unit deployed during the winter of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
OK is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. Mencken claims that US troops deployed overseas during WWII found it already in use by Bedouins in the Sahara to the Japanese in the Pacific. It was also the fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon. It stands for oll korrect, a misspelling of all correct.
  1. Deploy
    (Mil) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. "Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war."
  2. Deploy
    (Mil) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. deploy
    Milit., to expand; display; extend in a line of small depth, as a division or a battalion which has been previously formed in one or more columns.
  2. deploy
    Milit., to open out; extend; move so as to form a more extended front or line: as, the regiment deployed to the right.
  3. (n) deploy
    Milit., the expansion or opening out of a body of troops previously compacted into a column, so as to present a more extended front.
  4. deploy
    To spread out, as the lower end of a valley glacier which extends out on a plain.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Deploy
    de-ploy′ to unfold: to open out or extend
  2. (v.i) Deploy
    to open: to extend from column into line, as a body of troops
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. déployer,; pref. , = dés,L. dis,) + ployer, equiv. to plier, to fold, fr. L. plicare,. See Ply, and cf. Display

Usage in the news

Luke Davis of Electronic Attack Squadron 135, for the first time after returning Thursday from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. hidbeynewstimes.com

New Guide for Identification, Packaging, Handling, Storage and Deployment of Fabricated Geomembrane Panels. astm.org

As I've mentioned here before, Sean Penn has weighed in and Prince William has recently been deployed there with the RAF causing Argentine hackles to be raised. globalpost.com

Sean Penn lashes out at the deployment of a British prince to the Falklands. csmonitor.com

British prince deployed as part of search and rescue crew. cnn.com

A six-week deployment is conventional for rescue pilots. cnn.com

Prince William begins his six-week deployment in the Falkland Islands today. csmonitor.com

Ceph can also be used to complement the Hadoop filesystem (HDFS) for Big Data deployments. infostor.com

Inappropriately deployed locking hardware endangers lives. locksmithledger.com

New online postcodes will let deployed military access more online goods and services. internetretailer.com

For military personnel deployed far away from home for months on end, familiar comforts can go a long way. internetretailer.com

Doomed Madrid Jet Didn't Deploy Wing Flaps . cbsnews.com

Spanish investigators probing last month's plane crash in Madrid that killed 154 people say the wing flaps did not deploy during takeoff, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday. cbsnews.com

NASA's Curiosity rover took this self-portrait using a camera on its newly-deployed mast. edition.cnn.com

Page 1 of 2 Avaya on Wednesday confirmed that Avaya Connect partners can now be authorized to sell Radvision Scopia video as part of their UC deployments. crn.com

Usage in scientific papers

Figure 2: The deployment diagram of the accelerator application environment.
A Prototype of the UAL 2.0 Application Toolkit

NCSTRL: Design and deployment of a globally distributed digital library.
A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments

GSI shares with SSH and Kerberos the distinction of being a security solution that has been deployed at a number of Grids including the NASA Information Power Grid and the NSF PACI Grids [12, 13].
A Community Authorization Service for Group Collaboration

CMS goal is to deploy a Coherent Analysis Environment that goes beyond the interactive analysis tool that provides classical data analysis and presentation functionalities such as N-tuples, histograms, fitting, plotting.
CMS Data Analysis: Current Status and Future Strategy

This will enable the user to maintain a consistent personalised environment while the various services may be configured and deployed according to policies specific to each provider site.
CMS Data Analysis: Current Status and Future Strategy

Usage in literature

One midnight he was deploying a company of Mexicans about the mesquite-thicket which sheltered a band of warriors. "When the West Was Young" by Frederick R. Bechdolt

If the Archduke deploys his right he's lost. "L'Aiglon" by Edmond Rostand

The British files were now ordered to deploy into line, and fire. "The Continental Dragoon" by Robert Neilson Stephens

There were troops deploying over the plain. "The Missourian" by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

The leading columns deployed into thin lines, with short intervals between the men, as the shrapnel broke. "The Boy Allies with the Cossacks" by Clair W. Hayes

Tell him before he lands, so that he can plan his deployment. "Take the Reason Prisoner" by John Joseph McGuire

The Seventh Regiment deployed and vanished into the woods, forward, and the Eleventh followed in line of battle. "In The Ranks" by R. E. McBride

A few minutes more, and the Brigade that had left, that morning, came rushing up and deployed to our left. "From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign" by William Meade Dame

Perceiving the enemy show signs of a disposition to contest our crossing, my brigade was at once deployed to force a passage. "History of Morgan's Cavalry" by Basil W. Duke

It might have been mid-day when the six columns began their march and deployed masses of hussars and cavalry on both sides of Gross-Gorschen. "The Conscript" by Émile Erckmann

Usage in poetry
The French and British closed in solid square,
While the smoke of the heavy cannonade darkened the air;
Then the noble Picton deployed his division into line,
And drove back the enemy in a very short time.